Re: [whatwg] Annotating structured data that HTML has no semanticsfor

2009-06-30 Thread Ian Hickson
On Tue, 9 Jun 2009, Kristof Zelechovski wrote: * Let a COLOR element have a value DOM property in the DOM that returns a color. .value already does so. * Let a NUMBER element has a value DOM property that returns a number. .valueAsNumber already does so. Actually, the latter use case is

Re: [whatwg] Annotating structured data that HTML has no semanticsfor

2009-06-09 Thread Kristof Zelechovski
* Let a COLOR element have a value DOM property in the DOM that returns a color. * Let a NUMBER element has a value DOM property that returns a number. Actually, the latter use case is one I have bumped into: * The DOM does not provide a numeric value, * JavaScript support for parsing localized

Re: [whatwg] Annotating structured data that HTML has no semanticsfor

2009-05-18 Thread Kristof Zelechovski
Being unable to deal with all use cases sometimes is a feature. For example, regular expressions are unable to recognize all recursive languages; it is a feature. As a compensation for that loss, they do not suffer from the halting problem. HTH, Chris

Re: [whatwg] Annotating structured data that HTML has no semanticsfor

2009-05-15 Thread Kristof Zelechovski
I do not think anybody in WHATWG hates the CURIE tool; however, the following problems have been put forward: Copy-Paste The CURIE mechanism is considered inconvenient because is not copy-paste-resilient, and the associated risk is that semantic elements would randomly change their

Re: [whatwg] Annotating structured data that HTML has no semanticsfor

2009-05-15 Thread Dan Brickley
On 15/5/09 14:11, Shelley Powers wrote: Kristof Zelechovski wrote: I do not think anybody in WHATWG hates the CURIE tool; however, the following problems have been put forward: Copy-Paste The CURIE mechanism is considered inconvenient because is not copy-paste-resilient, and the associated

Re: [whatwg] Annotating structured data that HTML has no semanticsfor

2009-05-15 Thread Eduard Pascual
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 1:44 PM, Kristof Zelechovski giecr...@stegny.2a.pl wrote: I do not think anybody in WHATWG hates the CURIE tool; however, the following problems have been put forward: Copy-Paste        The CURIE mechanism is considered inconvenient because is not

Re: [whatwg] Annotating structured data that HTML has no semanticsfor

2009-05-15 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 9:17 AM, Eduard Pascual herenva...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 1:44 PM, Kristof Zelechovski Link rot        CURIE definitions can only be looked up while the CURIE server is providing them; the chance of the URL becoming broken is high for home-brewed